Greetings!
Back in January 2022, we set our sights on upgrading Post Scriptum to the latest version of Unreal Engine, this was in part to fix issues and bugs, but also to bring improvements to the game that weren't present in the older version of the engine.
We obviously knew going into the update it would take some time, but we ran into many new issues that required some extensive work, but thanks to our developers and our amazing Community QA team as well as the public players and the communities, we were able to nail down the majority of the biggest issues that prevented us from releasing an update.
With those issues out of the way, we are confident that the next update ready for our players.
4.27 Engine Upgrade Update Release Date
Available June 16th
With all those many months behind us, we will be releasing the Engine Upgrade and all the new features to our players starting June 16th. Going from there, we will continue bug fixing and improving as we move ahead with Chapter 4, which is also planned to release in the very near future.
The engine upgrade brings in some important improvements to both us as developers, but certainly also benefits our players with brand new tech that wasn't previously available.
Nvidia DLSS Implementation
With Unreal Engine 4.27, we had the chance to experiment with the implementation of brand new tech that has changed how we play video games quite heavily, one such technology is Nvidia DLSS.
Nvidia DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) is an AI-based technology developed by Nvidia to improve performance using Tensor cores on their special hardware, particularly the RTX series of graphics cards. DLSS uses AI deep learning neural networks to upscale images from lower resolutions to higher resolution using the AI Tensor cores available on their RTX series of graphics cards. The performance improvements come at virtually no cost to visual fidelity.
With 4.27 Post Scriptum will also feature the ability for players with RTX graphics cards to make use of DLSS to improve their performance in the game. Players can expect to see as big as a 50% performance boost to their game performance using DLSS.
Nvidia NIS Implementation
Because DLSS requires an RTX series card from Nvidia there is a limit to who can make use of this technology, but Nvidia recently released NIS (Nvidia Image Scaling) which uses the same principles of upscaling lower-resolution images to achieve better performance.
NIS is essentially Nvidia's version of AMD FSR and it works in the same way and this means that it is not required to have an Nvidia graphics card as this technology works with cards from other manufacturers like AMD, Intel and so on.
Unlike DLSS, NIS does not make use of any AI deep learning or neural network to upscale, but rather relies on an upscaling algorithm and sharpening to achieve a similar result. The reason for us choosing this implementation over others like AMD FSR is that the integration is much simpler and the two technologies works well together since they are from the same developer. In the future, we may consider an AMD FSR implementation if the demand exists.
Performance improvements here aren’t as high as they are using DLSS, but on the other hand, NIS is driver based and does not require any particular type of graphics cards, as such even older Nvidia or AMD series cards can make use of this feature.
Improved Spawn Menu
The Spawn Menu is a vital tool for all players regardless of roles and function. Over the years we have made some changes to our spawn menu in order to streamline it and make the experience better, we spent a lot of time reading and discussing player feedback and suggestions, with the many changes already being made to the game in various ways thanks to our community, it would only make sense for us to see where we can improve the interaction with the spawn menu.
We identified a few key areas that we wanted to improve upon
- The number of pages players have to navigate in order to select roles, kits and teams.
- Better streamlined experience to ensure that going from joining a team to selecting a kit, a role and a place to spawn is set up in a more intuitive way for players.
- Rework various items that aren’t on the spawn menu, or take up unnecessary space.
We have now added the ability to respawn directly from the spawn menu when you are spawned in, this also gives you a warning that respawning comes at a cost in tickets and spawn time. It is still possible to respawn using a command, but we encourage players to make use of the new respawn button as eventually the command could be removed.
Many more changes were made, and we can't list them all in one post.
But you can find all the devblogs covering the changes below:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/736220/view/4689941763322221341
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/736220/view/3193626400498877718
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/736220/view/3327609752679252140
Steam Summer Sale 2022
June 23rd - July 7th
Flowers are blooming, the heat waves are here and its time to bring out your sunscreen, because summer is here and you know what that means. The Steam Summer Sale is almost upon us and as with every year Steam has their seasonal sale on the same period as it usually does every year.
You can expect Post Scriptum to be 50% off for the Steam Summer Sale 2022.
Sincerely,
Periscope Games
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